Finance
China's CXMT Debuts in Shanghai; U.S. Memory-Chip Stocks Fall for a Second Day
Shares of SanDisk, Seagate and Micron dropped again after ChangXin Memory Technologies raised about $8.6 billion in Shanghai and surged on its first trading day, reviving debate over future memory-chip supply.
U.S. Imposes New 10%-12.5% Tariffs on 60 Trading Partners as Prior Duties Expire
The Trump administration used a forced-labor trade law to reimpose broad tariffs the day older duties lapsed, as tech stocks fell for reasons investors are still sorting out.
Dollar and Treasury Yields Hold Firm as Gulf Oil Shock Complicates the Fed's September Decision
A war-driven oil spike has pushed U.S. inflation risk back into markets, and traders are split over whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in September or hold and wait.
Asian Chip Stocks Rally on July 21 as Samsung, SK Hynix and TSMC Reverse Early-July AI-Chip Selloff
South Korea's Kospi and Taiwan's Taiex jumped Tuesday, recovering ground lost in a July selloff driven by doubts over AI spending, aided by strong recent earnings from U.S. memory maker Micron.
War-Risk Insurance for Tankers in the Strait of Hormuz Jumps Again as U.S.-Iran Fighting Resumes
Marine insurers are quoting single-voyage war-risk rates as high as 10% of a ship's value after a mid-July collapse of the U.S.-Iran truce, raising the cost of moving oil through a waterway that carries roughly a fifth of the world's crude.
Nasdaq Falls About 1.5% as Chip Selloff and Netflix's Weak Guidance Weigh on U.S. Stocks
A multi-day, mutually reinforcing retreat from AI and semiconductor shares across Asia and Wall Street culminated on July 16-17, 2026, in a U.S. selloff amplified by a soft third-quarter forecast from Netflix.
Markets Swing as U.S. and Iran Trade Strikes Across the Gulf; Oil Climbs Anew, Gold Slips
Iran says it hit U.S.-linked bases in Bahrain and Kuwait after fresh American strikes on Iran; crude briefly topped $80 earlier in the week, eased, then climbed again toward $79 as the Gulf strikes landed, while gold fell for a second session and equity futures swung as investors gauged the odds of a wider war.
June Employment Report Arrives Early as Fed Chair Warsh Says Inflation Is 'Too High' and Weighs a Rate Increase
The Labor Department released its June jobs data on July 2, a day ahead of the July 4 holiday, amid an unusual debate over whether the Federal Reserve will raise rates rather than cut them.
Kospi Closes 4.61% Higher and Nikkei 2.1% Higher as Chipmakers Rally; U.S. Markets Were Closed for Labor Day
Japanese and South Korean chip stocks led gains on Monday, September 7, 2026, while Hong Kong and Shanghai fell and analysts split over whether the move reflects AI demand or a rebound from a summer crash.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra, Its First Model Rated 'Critical' Under Its Own Cyber Risk Policy
OpenAI began a limited release of GPT-6 Astra on September 3, 2026 and opened it to paying ChatGPT tiers the next day, saying the model crossed the company's top internal cybersecurity risk threshold.
SB Energy IPO Filing Discloses $3 Billion Nvidia Investment, $5.5 Billion in OpenAI Warrants and a $105 Billion Nvidia Lease Backstop
SoftBank's power-and-data-center arm filed to list on Nasdaq under "SBE" seeking $5 billion to $7 billion, and told the SEC it is "substantially dependent" on OpenAI, its main tenant and an investor.
Reuters Reports Anthropic's IPO Marketing Pushed to Mid-October at the Earliest
People familiar with the plans told Reuters the prospectus will now come out in late September and investor marketing in mid-October; some investors have floated a valuation above $2 trillion, a figure Anthropic has not confirmed.